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Amechanon, Vol. I / 2016-2018, ISSN: 2459-2846

In what way?

You create concert, you create discourse. The discourse is never the same. The discourse
cannot be planned in advance. The discourse uses technique but technique is not enough

to have a dialogue. The discourse and the dialogue are in themselves disposed to otherness
but at the same time have to be disposed to find also an identity in order to have a

perspective on things and to present our perspective. So, in a sense, we have to be aware

of our perspective, in order to have a dialogue on a topic but is not enough: because if you
want to have a dialogue in order to maintain a discourse, you have also to be able to have
another perspective different from yours that is interesting for you. So you have to find

the common commitment. This process of creating discourse and of conceiving the

discussion during community of inquiry is a creative work that emerge from the join
creativity. It was really similar to what's happen in a jam session and it was completely
improvised. Each session, each community of inquiry activity was completely improvised

and you know that is completely improvised, because if it does not, then you have problem

with the activity. So you cannot realize a community of inquiry that you already planned.
So, in a sense, if you are a planner of discourse, you are sure that you cannot be a facilitator

of dialogue. A planner of discourse is not a facilitator of dialogue. But you know, in a lot of
school activities you are a planner of discourse..

You have the questions in advance.

Aaa... You see.

You expect the answers ...

Yes.. Ask me the right question that I can give you the right answer ... this is not a facilitator.
This is not a dialogue. This is not an inquiry dialogue and so is really something different ...

so, in that sense, the improvisation of educational dialogue was really, really close to the

improvisation of musical dialogue and a lot of studies on improvisation on musical dialogue
was for me really interesting in order to better understand what's happen in community of
inquiry in which a facilitator really did his/her work in a good way. So, in a way I was really

attracted by the concept of improvisation in itself as ontological concept, as something

that it was really difficult to define; in the same way it was so difficult to define what is a
good dialogue and what is a good improvisation. You have here the same problem.

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